Why muscles aren't torn down and built back bigger
The Chris and Paul Show
The Muscle Damage Hypothesis
The muscle damage hypothesis was proposed that basically the greater damage experienced after these centrics was a trigger for hypertrophy. Now, of course, now we understand that we get a load more pass attention in those eccentric contractions. And that's the contributor to potentially slightly greater hypertrophy within certain constraints. We don't need and never needed a muscle damage hypothesis in this particular case because very simply, you know, we've got passive tension that will do the job for us.
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